I watched Anderson Cooper last night with the Messiah and was literally yelling at the TV. Any cub reporter from a local small town newspaper would know enough to call Obama on his constant references to her being Mayor of Wasilla, one of those small towns where bitter people cling to the religion and guns. Instead of calling Obama on this obvious distortion, Cooper appeared to be under Obama’s spell, and just thanked him profusely for his time.
Before Cooper, Wolf Blitzer was going on and on about Palin’s daughter and Troopergate. The moron went through Troopergate and tried to make Palin look bad, but when it came to talking about the root of the matter (Trooper Wooten, the step son tasering, drinking on the job, threatening the Gov’s father’s life, poaching moose illegally good for nothing cop) Wolf said he wouldn’t talk about specifics about him, to protect him. It was a disgusting show of media bias, as Trooper Wooten has already been SUSPENDED for NINE DAYS as a result of some of his actions, and the rest are a matter of record.
Yesterday, when the convention showed the videotaped statements by each of the Republican Gulf of Mexico governors, CNN stayed with their very repetitive Gustav coverage. I was astonished that they just skipped these very timely presentations during the few minutes that the convention was convened for the first day.
CNN has two channels and probably hundreds of employees covering the convention. The DBM's ability to decide what is or is not a story, and what to show or ignore, is extremely powerful.
I saw this also; Blitzer’s performance was a new low, even for DNCNN. I thought at the time that his reference to “Troopergate” might backfire, as the original “Troopergate” refers to the practice of Arkansas State Troopers pimping female state employees for then-Governor Bill Clinton.